Both Uses
credulous
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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- It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!
Chpt 7 *credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
- But incredulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards.†
Chpt 11incredulity = a state of not believingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incredulity means not and reverses the meaning of credulity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definitions:
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(1)
(credulous) gullible (being too willing to believe)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)